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@article{Wang:2020:10.1029/2020gl088589,
author = {Wang, S and Rashid, T and Thorp, H and Toumi, R},
doi = {10.1029/2020gl088589},
journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
pages = {28 Jul 2020--28 Jul 2020},
title = {A shortening of the life-cycle of major tropical cyclones},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020gl088589},
volume = {47},
year = {2020}
}

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AB  - In this study a comprehensive picture of the changing intensity life cycle of major (Category 3 and higher) tropical cyclones (TCs) is presented. Over the past decades, the lifetime maximum intensity has increased, but there has also been a significant decrease in duration of time spent at intensities greater than Category 1. These compensating effects have maintained a stable global meanaccumulated cyclone energy of individual major TCs. The global mean duration of major TCs has shortened by about 1 day from 1982 to 2018. There has been both faster intensification (Categories 1 to 3) and weakening (Categories 3 to 1) by about 40%. The probabilities of rapid intensification and rapid weakening have both risen in the period 2000–2018 compared to 1982–1999. A statistically significant anticorrelation is found between the lifetime maximum intensity and the following duration of the final weakening. This suggests an element of selfregulation of TC life cycles.
AU  - Wang,S
AU  - Rashid,T
AU  - Thorp,H
AU  - Toumi,R
DO  - 10.1029/2020gl088589
EP  - 2020
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 0094-8276
SP  - 28
TI  - A shortening of the life-cycle of major tropical cyclones
T2  - Geophysical Research Letters
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020gl088589
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/80993
VL  - 47
ER  -

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